by RuthDE | May 16, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, May
It is one of the oddities of these two islands that while many people proudly describe themselves as Irish, Scottish or Welsh nationalists, English nationalism is used as a term of abuse. Published: 16 May 2023 Celtic nationalists of various kinds have rebranded...
by RuthDE | Jan 10, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, January, Journalism
I watched the whole of Tom Bradby’s interview with Prince Harry on ITV on Sunday night. Published: 10 January 2023 I had also spent a lot of time at the weekend and yesterday morning reading snippets from his ghosted autobiography, Spare, accidentally on sale under...
by RuthDE | Sep 27, 2022 | 2022, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, September
Excitedly greeting the census figures showing that people who were either Catholic or brought up as Catholic made up 45.7% of the population with their Protestant equivalents on 43.5%, Colum Eastwood demonstrated his tin ear with an old-fashioned, sectarian response....
by RuthDE | Oct 9, 2018 | 2018, Journalism, Sunday Independent
It’s an unexciting field in the race for the presidency, but that’s no reason to vote for the horse we know best, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 October 2018 Try as I might, I can’t yet find a candidate to cheer for in the presidential race....
by RuthDE | Mar 26, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism
Published 24 March 2018 ‘A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind,’ is a quotation from a constitutional expert, Walter Bagehot, writing in 1863 about the wedding of Prince Harry’s...
